Transparent App Icons vs HTML Wallpaper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Transparent App Icons
Easily customize your iOS home screen with unique icons that blend seamlessly with your wallpaper. Create custom layouts and spacing for a personalized aesthetic. Includes a variety of overlay images for a see-through logo effect.
- Upload wallpaper for seamless icon blending
- Automatic image cropping to wallpaper size
- Create icon images for entire home screen pages
- Overlay transparent images with 2200+ logos
- Custom icon spacing and layouts
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Updated for iPhone 16 and iOS 18.1 with support for large icons mode! Transparent App Icons is the easiest, simplest way to customize your iOS 14+ Home Screen with icons that are set against the background wallpaper to look like they’re transparent. Transparent App Icons lets you create images to use as Shortcuts and bookmarks on your Home Screen, so you can achieve previously impossible Home Screen layouts and custom icon spacing, using a simulated transparent background. Features: - Upload wallpaper images and automatically create icons with the correct cut-out so that icons blend with the wallpaper seamlessly - Automatically crop uploaded images to your phone’s wallpaper size - Quickly create icon images for entire home screen pages - Overlay transparent images to create a see-through logo effect: 2200+ logos and symbols included in the app - Transparent App Icons is a one time purchase, paid up front: no subscriptions, no selling data, no need to log in - Absolutely never, ever, ever any ads There’s no corporation trying to extract ad dollars here - I’m just one developer, and I hope Transparent App Icons can help you create creative and aesthetic iOS 14 home screen layouts! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out at support@transparenticons.app, or on Twitter at @TransparentIcns - thank you!
HTML Wallpaper
Transform your device's look by displaying any HTML webpage as a live wallpaper. Integrate real-time weather data and access a community for pre-made themes or to create your own.
- Set HTML pages as live wallpaper
- Display real-time weather data
- Access community themes
- Create custom HTML wallpapers
- Supports lock and home screens
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Introducing HTML Wallpaper - Make your device appearance unique. Bring any html side as a wallpaper to your lockscreen or homescreen. You can include weather API calls to bring actual weather data on screen. Join our iNNOVATION discord community (18.000 members) to download out of the box themes or write your own Wallpaper.html file. For HTML Wallpaper to work, you need to download 2 shortcuts, one for lockscreen and one for homescreen. Download-links are available within app. Kindly follow the short in-app-guideline to change your wallpaper on your device. Enjoy. t3chn3ric
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: HTML Wallpaper at Free against Transparent App Icons's $1.99. HTML Wallpaper also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5). Transparent App Icons's advantage is ratings volume (157 vs 3) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
HTML Wallpaper is free to download; Transparent App Icons costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HTML Wallpaper holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Transparent App Icons has 157 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Transparent App Icons ships an update every 2 weeks, HTML Wallpaper every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Transparent App Icons | HTML Wallpaper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (157 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 49.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 157 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #46 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Noah Gilmore | Eric Roembach |
Customer experience
Transparent App Icons
HTML Wallpaper
Bugs and requests
Transparent App Icons
Reported bugs
3 issues- Icons not aligning properly on iPhone 14 Pro Max
- Cropping issues on iPhone 13 mini
- App freezes when trying to add multiple icons
Requested features
4 requests- Add support for iOS 26
- Allow uploading own icons
- Add widget customization
- Save and load icon layouts
HTML Wallpaper
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Transparent App Icons
No in-app purchases
HTML Wallpaper
No in-app purchases
Questions
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